Re: install 2 versions in same harddisk

2002-12-16 Thread Mark Ivey
installs (I don't remember, so you should look this up). Second, you need to add both installs to the boot loader. I don't know if the Redhat install will do this for you automatically. If not, you will have to edit grub.conf after the second installation and add the 1st install back in. -Mark Ivey

Re: OT regex help

2002-11-20 Thread Mark Ivey
perl -ne '/\A(.).*(.)\Z/; print $1, $2;' test would do it as long as you stick to a single line... -Mark Ivey- On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:56, Matthew Boeckman wrote: I know this is a little OT, but thought someone might have a quick answer. I'm trying to match the first and or last letter

bash script question (for loops)

2000-11-25 Thread Mark Ivey
ectories later, so I can't just use the * version. Also, I know I could use the -exec flag on the find command, but I am having this problem with a few other for loops that I can't use find on, so I would really like to know how to get the for command to work. Tha

Re: web browser

2000-11-25 Thread Mark Ivey
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Thornton Prime wrote: I'd actually strongly recommend a daily snapshot of Mozilla instead. I found Netscape 6 buggy and bloated, but the more recent daily snapshots of Mozilla have been, for the most part, as stable or more stable than Netscape 4.7x. I was just

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and voodoo 3

2000-10-28 Thread Mark Ivey
Yes, I ran 'XFree86 -configure' like the docs said, then modified it slightly (changed resolution). -Mark- On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Statux wrote: Did you go through the part about creating a new XF86Config file and editing it to add all the necessary stuff?

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and voodoo 3

2000-10-28 Thread Mark Ivey
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Tony Inskeep wrote: I don't have any experience with your particular situation, but what happens if you try insmod -f tdfx? Per the man page for insmod, you can use the -f switch to load the module, despite any kernel version differences. Just an idea, anyway. Does the

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and voodoo 3

2000-10-28 Thread Mark Ivey
er, that's exactly what I did. I feel stupid now :) (Although the documentation never mentioned that I had to download extra drivers, that I could find...) Anyway, thanks for the tip :) -Mark- You didn't do something strange like: mv /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/tdfx_drv.o \

Re: Handspring PDA on Linux

2000-10-27 Thread Mark Ivey
you might want to check out the Handspring-Visor mini-HOWTO at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Handspring-Visor.html Also, the visor doesn't come with the serial cable, you have to buy it seperately... -Mark- On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: A serial cable is also available

XFree86 4.0.1 and voodoo 3

2000-10-27 Thread Mark Ivey
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/tdfx.o: insmod tdfx failed so what gives? Has anyone else gotten this to work? -Mark Ivey- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

XFree86 4.01 upgrade on RH 6.2

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I'm running RH 6.2 and I'm trying to upgrade to XFree86 4.01 with rpms I got from RawHide. I am getting the following message: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by XFree86-4.0.1-1 Are RPMs available for glibc 2.2? I can't find them anywhere... -Mark-

Re: /dev/mixer's permissions changed?

2000-10-13 Thread Mark Ivey
I doubt it. No monitor or keyboard on that machine...any other ideas? -Mark- On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mark Ivey wrote: I have a cable running from the line out on the mp3 copmuter to the line in on my main computer. I still don't see what

Re: /dev/mixer's permissions changed?

2000-10-11 Thread Mark Ivey
? or is the system close to where you are logged in from? On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Mark Ivey wrote: The problem I'm having is I'm not logged on locally. The computer is just hooked up to the network and I have it starting VNC when it boots. The part of PAM that is supposed to give ownership of the devices

/dev/mixer's permissions changed?

2000-10-10 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, Here's an odd problem I had today. I have a computer (RH6.2) for playing mp3's, and I had previously run 'chmod 666' for both /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer so my user account could play music. It has been fine but today the permissions had gotten changed and I had to do it again. It just ran

Re: /dev/mixer's permissions changed?

2000-10-10 Thread Mark Ivey
'grape' then the devices will be character special files with 600 permissions and owned by grape (provided grape was the first user logged in). etc. On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Ivey wrote: Hi, Here's an odd problem I had today. I have a computer (RH6.2) for playing mp3's, and I had

X displays

2000-08-30 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I know you can control which X display a program uses (if there is more than one display to choose from) but can you have a program use 2 displays at the same time (i.e. show up on take input from 2 displays at once)? -Mark- ___ Redhat-list

suspending a remote X session?

2000-08-29 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I am running remote X through ssh. I would like to be able to reboot, logout, etc. on my local computer without disrupting the remote X session. I know VNC can do something like this, but I was wondering if I could just "disconnect" my remote X apps when I log out and have them stay

un-sorting a file.

2000-08-13 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, Is there a command that works similar to the 'sort' command, but instead randomizes lines of a text file? Thanks... -Mark- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

kickstart doesn't recognize NE 2000

2000-08-04 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I'm having a problem with kickstart under RH 6.2. I have an NE 2000 ISA network card, and I put "device eth ne" into my kickstart file. However, this doesn't work. One of the other virtual consoles says that the module ne is unknown. I have tried adding the IO address of the card using

kickstart drivers

2000-08-04 Thread Mark Ivey
I would like to know what NIC drivers are available in a kickstart install for RedHat 6.2. Specifically, is the ne2000 driver (ne.o) still available? Under 6.0, I could do this: "device eth ne" but after upgrading to 6.2 I get a message saying "unknown module" Has it been removed? How can I

how do I get PPP to stop redialing?

2000-07-27 Thread Mark Ivey
I used netcfg to setup the ppp scripts on my computer, and even though I checked the "abort on well-known errors" option it doesn't seem to be working. If the modem returns NO DIALTONE, ppp immediately redials, and will continue redialing forever. How do I get it to stop? I'm running a stock

Re: What is this???

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Ivey
I believe the -20's are priority nice values. Lower values are higher priority so that is running at a high priority. 'man nice' or 'man renice' would give more info. Don't know what mdrecoveryd does, except it is something to do with disks... -Mark- On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Steven Pierce

remote control for PPP connection

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, Let me ask my question first, then explain the background: How can I control Computer A's PPP connection from Computer B (they are connected by ethernet)? I have a computer running as a gateway for my network and I want to be able to control the connection remotely. I tried just using the

monitoring firewalls

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I keep seeing comments similar to "someone port-scanned my firewall today, and here is who they were..." and I was wondering how you manage to get this information (both the fact that someone scanned you, and then the info on the originating system). Thanks... -Mark- -- To unsubscribe:

Restricting user logins to certain IPs

2000-07-08 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I'm trying to restrict a user's login to only certain IP numbers. I have tried editing /etc/security/access.conf /etc/usertty (after a tip in the man page for login). Neither of these have any effect though. How do I do this under Redhat 6.2? Thanks... -Mark- -- To unsubscribe: mail

Loud sound when soundcard initalizes?

2000-04-23 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I'm running RH 6.2 (although I had the same problem under 6.0) on a pentium 200 with a sound blaster AWE 64. I used sndconfig to set up the soundcard and everything seems to work fine, except that sometimes when I'm booting up the computer makes a really loud crashing sound when it

Re: how can this be? (modem speed...)

2000-04-05 Thread Mark Ivey
instead? 100 minutes = 60 seconds * 100 = 6000 seconds 137291046 / 6000 = 2.1k/s (approx) On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Mark Ivey wrote: Ok, today I check my log and I see this entry: Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity. Apr 4 18:18:26

how can this be? (modem speed...)

2000-04-04 Thread Mark Ivey
Ok, today I check my log and I see this entry: Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity. Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Connection terminated. Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Connect time 100.6 minutes. Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Sent

getting GnoRPM to look at rawhide releases?

2000-02-11 Thread Mark Ivey
How can I get GnoRPM to list files on rawhide.redhat.com in the web find window? Is it possible? -Mark- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: How to make rpmfind work faster?

2000-02-10 Thread Mark Ivey
. It would be really nice if I could just make rpmfind hold on to the list it receives so I wouldn't have to wait so long on each request. I doubt the packages I'm requesting would change within the evening... -Mark- On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ric Moore wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Mark Ivey wrote: I want

How to make rpmfind work faster?

2000-02-09 Thread Mark Ivey
I want to know if there is any way to make rpmfind work faster over a modem connection. I am not sure, but it seems like every time I do a search, it downloads the entire rpm database. Is there a way to tell it to only load that once a day or once a week? Does anyone else use rpmfind or is

running out of memory crashes linux?

2000-02-01 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a pentium 200 w/ 32 mb of ram and 60 mb of swap space. The other day I was writing a program for a school assignment that basically makes a list of random numbers and then sorts them. I told it to run with a size of 5 million, and then I watched as it used up all

reset my BIOS and can't install linux?

2000-01-14 Thread Mark Ivey
n amibios) can autodetect the hard drive correctly, and lilo cfdisk see the drive geometry correctly. What else could be causing this? -Mark Ivey- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: reset my BIOS and can't install linux?

2000-01-14 Thread Mark Ivey
What about LBA mode? I have one disk where it is on and one disk where it is off. If LBA mode is on and that is NOT how you used the disk, it will NOT boot. MB -- I don't think the bios even supports LBA mode (I can't find an option for it at least...) I've formatted the drive

question about linux performance

1999-12-10 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, I have a question about general linux performance. It seems like my linux box at home doesn't run like it ought to (specifically, it seems like it was faster under windows). Here are the stats on it: pentium 200mmx, 32 mb ram, 70 mb swap, matrox mystique w/ 4mb I'm running a stock redhat

X won't start due to font error

1999-12-02 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, This morning my computer won't start X, instead it just gives me the error below. I'm running RH6.0, pretty much just a stock install, and I don't recall doing anything recently that would have caused this. Has anyone had this happen before? _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:

Re: X won't start due to font error

1999-12-02 Thread Mark Ivey
=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1` echo $title On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Mark Ivey wrote: Hi, This morning my computer won't start X, instead it just gives me the error below. I'm running RH6.0, pretty much just a stock install, and I don't recall doing anything recently

SOLVED Re: X won't start due to font error

1999-12-02 Thread Mark Ivey
yep, that was it. I managed to figure it out after looking at the sendmail logs. It would've been nice if the error message X had given me had been a little more to the point :) Thanks, -Mark- On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:52:02AM -0800, Mark Ivey